Rove On Family Guy: Seth MacFarlane Needed Conservative For Show’s Success

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As we’ve reported before, former Bush adviser Karl Rove will be playing himself in an upcoming episode of Family Guy. And he had some thoughts on both the script and the show’s creator, Seth MacFarlane.

“I had a telephone conversation with the creator of the program, who is a completely mindless liberal who had an incredibly tasteless joke in the script which I talked him out of,” Rove said. “But it was a sign of how much help he needed from a conservative in order to make this program succeed.”

Rove went to the Washington, D.C., Fox affiliate to record his lines last week.

Rove and Rush Limbaugh are appearing in an episode where Brian, the liberal family dog, gets bored with Democrats in power and decides to become a conservative.

“I play myself, meaning the son of Satan, the spawn of evil,” Rove said.

Video after the jump.

H/T Think Progress.

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